The ability of installers to make a stove work for me seems directly related to the stove they most want to sell me.
I'm leaning heavily towards a free standing stove in my old masonry fireplace and I've been told a few different things:
*A stove could be put in minus legs or pedestal and/or
*A stove could be put in by removing bricks as needed.
*I need a cast iron because of the pipe placement.
*A pipe could be put in that would create 2 angles.
*I might as well get an insert because a free-standing should still be plated in.
Nobody has actually looked at my place yet, but I'm inclined to think I would still get the same responses. Does any of this sound reasonable? Unreasonable? Can the stove be backed right up into my old hearth or does there need to be some clearance there?
I'm leaning heavily towards a free standing stove in my old masonry fireplace and I've been told a few different things:
*A stove could be put in minus legs or pedestal and/or
*A stove could be put in by removing bricks as needed.
*I need a cast iron because of the pipe placement.
*A pipe could be put in that would create 2 angles.
*I might as well get an insert because a free-standing should still be plated in.
Nobody has actually looked at my place yet, but I'm inclined to think I would still get the same responses. Does any of this sound reasonable? Unreasonable? Can the stove be backed right up into my old hearth or does there need to be some clearance there?